appointed, went to Lambeth in the hope that he might be able, by
courtesy and kindness, to soothe the irritation of which he was
the innocent cause. He stayed long in the antechamber, and sent in
his name by several servants; but Sancroft would not even return
an answer.50 Three weeks passed; and still the deprived Archbishop
showed no disposition to move. At length he received an order
intimating to him the royal pleasure that he should quit the
dwelling which had long ceased to be his own, and in which he was
only a guest. He resented this order bitterly, and declared that
he would not obey it. He would stay till he was pulled out by the
Sheriff's officers. He would defend himself at law as long as he
could do so without putting in any plea acknowledging the
authority of the usurpers.51 The case was so clear that he could
not, by any artifice of chicanery, obtain more than a short delay.
When judgment had been given against him, he left the palace, but
directed his steward to retain possession. The consequence was
that the steward was taken into custody and heavily fined.
Tillotson sent a kind message to assure his predecessor that the
fine should not be exacted. But Sancroft was determined to have a
grievance, and would pay the money.52

From that time the great object of the narrowminded and peevish
old man was to tear in pieces the Church of which he had been the
chief minister. It was in vain that some of those nonjurors,
whose virtue, ability and learning were the glory of their party,
remonstrated against his design. "Our deprivation,"--such was the
reasoning of Ken,--"is, in the sight of God, a nullity. We are,
and shall be, till we die or resign, the true Bishops of our
sees. Those who assume our titles and functions will incur the
guilt of schism. But with us, if we act as becomes us, the schism